Kosovo : Poverty Assessment, Volume 2

World Bank

Kosovo : Poverty Assessment, Volume 2

2001

World Bank

As Kosovo goes beyond the emergency relief phase, taking into consideration the situation of those that the conflict has left behind is vital to the effectiveness of any strategy for economic development. The study is designed to inform the current policy debate in the area of poverty alleviation, and social service delivery, and to include these in the Joint Interim Administrative Structure (JIAS), the World Bank, and other donors perspectives. Within the definition of poverty as a multidimensional force that extends beyond low levels of income, the report covers a wide range of issues, including consumption, income, education, health, and social protection. It is predominantly based on data from the Living Standard Measurement Survey, statistically representative of both the Albanian, and Serb population, though not of other ethnic groups. The study comprises two volumes, the first one reviews background information, and data to examine the extent of poverty in Kosovo, the role of food aid, and identifies the correlates of extreme poverty. Poverty is analyzed versus income sources, and social assistance, and against inequality in educational attainments, and access to health care, to lay the foundation for building a strategy for poverty alleviation. Based on the profile of poverty in Kosovo, the second volume discusses the consumption poverty profile, and factors affecting the risk of extreme poverty, to challenge building an effective social protection strategy. Conclusions indicate that to avoid an increase in poverty, economic growth should increase the share of income derived from wages, and the JIAS must increase assistance to households not able to participate in the economy.

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capacity building economic activities economic development employment ethnic groups ethnicity exchange rate extreme poverty food aid food consumption food security health care health insurance household consumption household income household surveys human capital income distribution income generation living conditions living standards non-governmental organizations poverty alleviation poverty reduction primary education productivity public expenditure public goods public services resource allocation rural areas rural population rural poverty social protection social services social welfare targeting urban areas urban population wages

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Washington, DC

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Poor; Development assistance; Labor markets; Transient poverty; Health care delivery; Conflict; Education delivery; Health status; Household composition; Living standards indicators; Welfare-to-work transition; Educational outcomes; Vulnerable groups; Poverty line; Currency unit; Public expenditures; Food basket; Labor force; Economic cooperation; Equivalent consumption; Poverty analysis; Poverty incidence; Poverty gap; Consumption per capita; Economic management; Ethnic minorities; Targeting efficiency; Census data; Demographics; Health expenditures; Benefit incidence; Ethnic diversity; Social protection systems; Poor households; Post-conflict reconstruction; Poverty measures; Labor market; Poverty assessment; Food poverty line; Policy dialogues; Poverty increase; Donor participation; Household level; Health care sector; Exchange rates; Poverty alleviation mechanisms; Household head; Absolute poverty; Policy options; Poverty profile; Food expenditures; Public agencies; Cash social transfers; Inequity; Rural households; Relative poverty; Consumption distribution; Headcount ratio; Household size; Access to health care; Durable goods; War poverty assessments; Health care utilization; Health indicators; Average consumption; Public transfers; Poverty indicators; National level; Poverty measurement; Relative risk; Increased access; Income shortfall; Social assistance; Gender discrepancies; Assistance strategies; Productive assets; Health care provision; Urban centers; Direct impact; Poverty risks; Chronic poverty; Economies of scale; Local officials; Ethnic group; Living standard; Private transfers; Task team leader; Consumption poverty; Monitoring criteria; Poverty lines; Social service delivery

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